Annie Hindenlang,
Executive Director Office of
Economic and Community
Development Perth Amboy
Redevelopment Agency
PERTH AMBOY – R-104-2/15 Accepting a Post Sandy Planning Assistance Grant from the NJ Department of Community Affairs in the amount of $50,000 under the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Funding Program for a Circulation Element Update.
The following was downloaded from the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs: Circulation Element of the Master Plan for the City of Perth Amboy.
The City of Perth Amboy is seeking to contract services of an AICP/PP Licensed Professional Planner or professional consultancy firm with duly licensed professionals on staff to prepare a Circulation Element of the Master Plan.
The State of New Jersey has allocated a total of $5 million to a Post Sandy Planning Assistance Grant program to help the most impacted counties and municipalities that have sustained a ratable loss of at least 1% or $1 million attributable to Superstorm Sandy develop planning strategies that will guide activities directed at revitalizing local planning documents and practices to achieve community-wide resilience to future storm damage and encourage sustainable economic growth. Funds granted under the Post Sandy Planning Assistance program are to be spent on plans to ameliorate the most significant municipal weaknesses identified in the Strategic Recovery Planning Report.
The completed Strategic Recovery Planning Report is a prerequisite for Perth Amboy to receive funding from the NJ Department of Community Affairs’ Post Sandy Planning Assistance program. Grant awards are based on the planning needs demonstrated in the Strategic Recovery Planning Report, and are intended to support long range planning for community redevelopment in municipalities and counties that sustained damage from Superstorm Sandy.
Annie Hindenlang and her department prepared specifications for applicants who wanted to submit proposals for specific projects. They were required to submit proposals by specific dates and their qualifications were to be reviewed by Hindenlang and her agency.
“… The City is currently talking with Staten Island Officials about reopening the ferry service further north along the Arthur Kill. If that were to become reality, there would be an opportunity to “reinvent” Smith Street as a multi-modal connector for bicycles, pedestrian shuttle bus between the train station and ferry terminal. As ferry terminal is in a vulnerable area to future storm surge, this potential link to the train station should be further explored in future planning, such as a Resiliency Element in the Master Plan, a new Circulation Element of the Master Plan, and amendments to the FOCUS 2000 Redevelopment plan, among others.
The new Element would also address the issue of separating combined storm/sanitary infrastructure, sustainable Best Practices for stormwater management and principles such as LEED for Neighborhood Development for improving and sustaining complete and connected neighborhoods and furthering the use of transit and reduction of Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT). The results of Project 9 (Study of Sea Level Rise in Raritan Bay), if available, could also be incorporated into the Community Resiliency Element.
The entire document and 32 page proposal can be viewed at:www.AmboyGuardian.com
The resolution was passed at the 2/25/15 Council Meeting. Petrick Moved, Pabon Seconded. All present voted “yes” except for Councilman Fernando Gonzalez who was absent from the meeting.
